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Eze gets visa to face StrasbourgSOFIA: Lokomotiv Plovdiv’s Nigerian Defender Stephen Eze has received a visa for Thursday’s Europa League game against Strasbourg, Bulgarian media reported.Eze and Lokomotiv’s Tajik midfielder Parvizdzhon Umarbayev were on the verge of missing the second leg of their team’s t....

Thousands celebrate crowning of European Capital of CultureAround 50,000 people gathered in Plovdiv in Bulgaria to celebrate the city being crowned the European Capital of Culture for 2019. Report by Swinnertonl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn....

Bulgaria's oldest city honored as European culture capitalSOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Plovdiv, the oldest city in Bulgaria, has been officially inaugurated as the European Capital of Culture for 2019.Some 50,000 people gathered on a central square Saturday to watch the opening show dubbed "We.......

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Plovdiv (Bulgarian: ÃÂŸÃÂ»ÃÂ¾ÃÂ²ÃÂ´ÃÂ¸ÃÂ²; dated: ÃÂŸÃÂ»ÃÂ¾ÃÂ²ÃÂ´Ã‘Â—ÃÂ²Ã‘ÂŒ) is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after the capital Sofia with a population of 339,077 inhabitants as of December 2012.[1][2] It is the administrative center of Plovdiv Province and the municipalities of the City of Plovdiv, Maritsa municipality and Rodopi municipality, whose municipal body had a population of 403,153 inhabitants as of February 2011.[1] It is an important economic, transport, cultural and educational center,[3] as well as the second-largest city in the historical international region of Thrace after Istanbul. It is the tenth-largest city in the Balkans after Istanbul, Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Zagreb, Skopje and Tirana.

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